assault on the backyard, day 25

i'm starting to think this applies to my house

this morning i naïvely got my hopes up and thought that maybe, just maybe, today would be the day that the assault on the backyard would end. how very, very, very wrong i was. the gigantic corral pit is filled (site of septic #2) and the construction debris is largely cleaned up; all that remained was to pour a massive amount of concrete slurry into the one extant septic tank. so this morning, thousands of gallons of cement, sand and water were pumped into the pit and we allegedly just had to wait about a week for the thing to cure and then the guys would throw some topsoil (probably imported from iowa) on it and a layer of sod and we'd be done. so during the day i go about my business as usual, rinsing some dishes, running the dishwasher, etc., and then rich came home and ran the kitchen sink for about 10 seconds...and it didn't drain. and it still hasn't drained.

the concrete slurry not only filled our now abandoned septic tank but also blocks what we oh-so-wrongly believed was an independent greywater system. there is no greywater system, and now there is no drainage from the middle of our house where the kitchen and laundry room meet. there ain't nothing going nowhere because what may have been a greywater system at one time was diverted into the big, now abandoned, now concrete-slurry filled septic tank. so it was bad enough trying to figure out why the hell the previous owner installed a disposal on the kitchen sink then sent the waste to a greywater system, now we have to reroute all of the plumbing in the middle of the house either from the inside (tearing up walls--which means a new blog series entitled "assault on the interior of our-awesome-yet-possibly-cursed house") or by assaulting the outside even further.

i would cry uncle if i thought it would help, but i'm totally afraid we aren't finished with this saga even yet. this is going to cost a fortune to fix...i feel like we're being punk'd by our house.